Excerpt from The Way of a MaidCoolevara is a typical Irish country town. A river flows in the midst of it, and the houses climb each side steeply. On one side are the hills - first a blue wall of rock, behind which lies an exquisite valley, beyond that, range after range, slieve-columb overtopping them, with a ragged mantle of clouds about his shoulders, and his face hidden. The other side of the river, which is spanned by one long light bridge, the lanes and streets wind up, corkscrew fashion, to a high plateau, airy as a moorland. You can stand on the edge of it and look down into Coolevara chimney-pots it would be an admirable point of vantage for the Devil on Two Sticks. The church spires seem to shoot up at your feet, and, looking down at the river, you will see it, most evenings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.